Baikal-T1 processor targets telecommunications, industrial automation and embedded systems. There was no word on supported operating systems, with the only reference to software being “the SoC comes with a set of extensible software based on open source code”, so it’s likely it will run Linux and leverage GNU tools.

The processor is close to being fully developed, as engineering samples are available to developers now, and Baikal-T1 based commercial solutions are expected by the end of 2015.